boardinghouse

Example Sentences

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Eventually, Frieda leaves and moves into Gulls Nest, a seaside boardinghouse.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 12, 2025

Jones, who was so brilliant in Daniel’s production of “King Hedley II” at A Noise Within is just as luminous here as the calming force at the boardinghouse.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2025

In the 1940s, the mansion was converted to a boardinghouse, then it fell into disrepair.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

All five of them shared a single room in a Ballard boardinghouse next to the restaurant where her father worked.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2023

He scooped up his dæmon and she attended to the scalp wound, licking and cleaning him tenderly as they walked back to their boardinghouse.

From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman